Open Source

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Open Source

UC Davis' Open-Source, Web-Based Communication Package for Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication

January 1, 2003

UC Davis is developing a platform-independent, open-source communications package (OpenRCT) that provides a multimedia, multilingual (UNICODE-compliant) tool for synchronous and asynchronous collab…

Chandler: A Collaborative Open Source Initiative for Higher Education

January 1, 2003

Chandler is an open-source personal information manager being developed by the Open source Applications Foundation (OSAF) to enable users to manage their e-mail, calendars, contacts, tasks, and fre…

UC Davis' Open-Source, Web-Based Communication Package for Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication

January 1, 2003

UC Davis is developing a platform-independent, open-source communications package (OpenRCT) that provides a multimedia, multilingual (UNICODE-compliant) tool for synchronous and asynchronous collab…

WebDisk: Storage Anywhere, Anytime for Everyone

January 1, 2003

In an educational environment, everyone needs access to disk storage anytime and from anywhere. Learn how the University of Calgary used emerging protocol standards and open-source software to deve…

Early Development Experiences from the Fedora Project

January 1, 2003

In 2001, UVA and Cornell joined forces to build the first repository management system based on Fedora (Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture). This panel will include a genera…

Creating Open Source: Issues, Processes, and Promises from Stanford's CourseWork CMS

January 1, 2003

CourseWork's goals included the creation of a framework to support modular learning tools developed by many schools and understanding and developing better distribution, peer, and technical su…

Selection, Deployment, and Management of Open-Source Security Tools

January 1, 2003

Institutions are caught between increasing security needs and costs and decreasing budgets. Open-source security tools offer significant cost savings and flexibility over commercial solutions. They…

The Open Knowledge Initiative in Practice

January 1, 2003

This presentation will summarize the process by which the OKI architecture evolved and then demonstrate, by example, some of the implementations that have been made of the OKI Service Interfaces. L…

The Open Knowledge Initiative

January 1, 2002

The Open Knowledge Initiative presents an open specification for the development of educational applications and course management environments. This session will introduce the OKI architecture thr…

An Open Source Model for Academic Content Dissemination and Pedagogical Collaboration: An Oxymoron or Just Impossible?

January 1, 2002

Good pedagogical applications develop when stimulated by sharing teaching and learning experiments and assessed critically in open discussion. The OpenCourseWare project exposes the aspects of teac…